“Hurdia was appropriately assigned its own unique phylum name.”
—Really? That phylum name being what? Does anyone have a clue what he’s talking about? From everything I’ve found “hurdia” is a genus uncontroversially in the family of Anomalocarididae, which is comprised of several other genera, and which are in the phylum Lobopodia.
“None of its features are transitional, but are instead found fully-formed in other creatures today that have no relationship to one another in any evolutionary scenario.”
—Actually, according to Science mag article he cited, it seems to fit in quite nicely:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/323/5921/1597/FIG4
Read the by-line. B Thomas, MS.
He even cites himself as a reference.